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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817027603321

Autore

Mowlana Hamid <1937->

Titolo

Global information and world communication : new frontiers in international relations / / Hamid Mowlana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1997

ISBN

1-4462-8003-9

1-85702-193-2

1-4462-3312-X

1-282-55967-2

9786612559679

0-85702-193-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 270 p.) : ill

Disciplina

302.2

302.23

Soggetti

Communication, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- 1 - World Politics in Transition: New Frontiers in International Relations -- 2 - International Flow of Information: A Framework of Analysis -- 3 - News and Views: Designing the World's Symbolic Environment -- 4 - Broadcasting the World: National and International Images -- 5 - Cultural Industry: From Books to Computers -- 6 - Political Economy of Information: Transnational Data Flows -- 7 - International Interactions: Travel and Tourism -- 8 - Human Flow Across National Boundaries: Intercultural Communication -- 9 - Information Technology: Developing Communication Systems and Policies -- 10 - Communication and Developement: The Emerging Orders -- 11 - International Communication Research: From Functionalism to Postmodernism and Beyond -- 12 - The Unfinished Revolution: The Crisis of Our Age -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This work considers the phenomenon of mass communications telecommunications and other media in varying international contexts: political, economic, cultural, technological military, legal and



professional.